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HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology on Agile
Is Agile the Enemy (of Good Design)?
Shared by 108, including designshard, Glyn Britton, Florian Hanke 🍎, Massimiliano Aroffo, Dominik Grolimund
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology on Crypto
Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
Everyone says the blockchain, the technology underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, is going to change EVERYTHING. And yet, after…
We already know blockchain’s killer apps
It wasn’t too long ago that Silicon Valley scoffed at cryptocurrencies. All over coffee shops in Mountain View and Menlo Park, you heard…
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology on Decentralization
Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency
There’s one incredible feature of cryptocurrencies that almost everyone seems to have missed, including Satoshi himself.
What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work
Lots of tech projects these days, especially crypto-networks, aspire to decentralization. Or their evangelists say they do, because they…
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology on Java
10 OOP Design Principles Every Programmer Should Know
The Object-Oriented Design Principles are the core of OOP programming, but I have seen most of the Java programmers chasing design…
Why Senior Devs Write Dumb Code and How to Spot a Junior From A Mile Away
One of my all time favorite quotes is from Brian Goetz, a smart dude in the Java world who is one of the authors of Java Concurrency in…
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology on MVP
An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It’s about Smart Learning
A minimum viable product (MVP) is not always a smaller/cheaper version of your final product. Defining the goal for a MVP can save you tons…
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology on Product Management
The Ultimate Guide to Minimum Viable Product
Please raise your hand, if you’ve ever heard about minimum viable product (MVP) and have no clue what it is. When you talk to software…
The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT.
Why you should focus on Riskiest Assumption Tests and forget about MVPs.
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology on Programming
How it feels to learn Javascript in 2016
Edit: Thanks for pointing typos and mistakes, I’ll update the article as noted. Discussion in HackerNews and Reddit.
12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory
I’ve used the term Feature Factory at a couple conference talks over the past two years.
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology on Scrum
Scrum is the Best Thing in the Whole Wide World
Shared by 33, including Oleg Baskov, Christian P. Stobbe, Tom Connor
Scrum? Kanban? It doesn’t really matter
Over the past 8 years I’ve developed in both Scrum and Kanban.
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology on Software Engineering
Webhooks Are Not the Same as APIs
In this article, we will discuss what makes them different from one another and what is the best case where they should be used.
«Webhooks are a lot similar to APIs, but the emphasis of webhooks is to POST notifications. Hence, it can be called a lightweight version of APIs or a reverse API as it is an event-based one-way form of communication between two web applications.»
5 Ways that Microservices can be Deployed Effectively
The perfect place to host a microservice application is largely determined by its size and scaling requirements. So, let’s go over the 5 main ways we can deploy
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WTF is Strategy?
Do you understand what planning and executing a product development strategy truly entails? In this helpful article, product development expert Vince Law works to clarify the concept of “strategic thinking.” Law explains strategy’s importance and offers a practical framework that contextualizes and defines strategy within the overall product development timeline. Law also offers general and specific examples of the framework and thus, strategic thinking, in action. getAbstract recommends this article to project leaders looking to better understand how to develop and execute strategy.
«Mission: This is a statement that describes the problem you are setting out to solve, typically including who you are solving it for.»
Why Isn’t Agile Working?
Agile project management techniques have the potential to help companies develop software focused on their customers’ needs in less time and with less waste than the old approaches. But as author John Cutler points out in this short, illustrated read from Hackernoon, agile isn’t a magic pill that will fix an organization’s productivity woes on its own. getAbstract recommends this short post as a starting point for those who may be considering an agile implementation but aren’t sure what to expect.
WTF is The Blockchain?
The terms “bitcoin” and “blockchain” flooded headlines after the value of the cryptocurrency more than tripled in the fourth quarter of 2017. But if you are not a currency trader or a technology expert, chances are you may not be fully familiar with their underlying concepts. Mohit Mamoria, the CEO of cryptofund Authorito, helps laypeople understand blockchain in this easy-to-follow blog post on Medium.
More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked
I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the…
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